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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2019
Ngk Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Satoshi Taniguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Takeshi Tokunaga, Nagoya, JP;
NGK INSULATORS, LTD., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A continuous heating furnace including an inlet, a heating zone, a cooling zone and an outlet in this order, for carrying out a heat treatment while conveying at least one workpiece from the inlet to the outlet, wherein the cooling zone is configured such that an ambient gas for direct cooling of the workpiece can flow into the cooling zone from the outlet; the cooling zone includes a plurality of indirect coolers arranged in parallel in the conveying direction of the workpiece, each of the indirect coolers having at least one regulator for independently adjusting a cooling power; and the cooling zone includes one or more residual heat outlets for discharging a residual heat gas in the cooling zone.